Package of rolled sheets



June 24, 1930. L. E. LA BOMBARD PACKAGE OF ROLLED SHEETS Filed Nov. 8. 1927 avian/0 Git/Z 133 0 Hazard Patented June 24,1930

UNITED STATES LEON E. LA BOMBARD, OE WEST PATENT omen,

NEWTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR T0 SPECIALTY AUTOMATIC MACHINE COMPANY, OF CHELSEA, MASSACHUSETTS, A CORPORATION OF MASSACHUSETTS I PACKAGE or ROLLEDF'SHEETS Application filed November 8, 1927. Serial No. 231,846".

cially lunches and many articles of food both cooked and uncooked. A well-known method of supplying such sheets to users is to make rolls of cut sheets wound or wrapped around a central core and enclosed in a wrapper or box. Separation of single sheets from a roll of them is not easy to effect without more or less disarrangement or mussing of the remaining sheets, this difficulty being greater when the roll includes more than two or three dozens of the sheets. This difiiculty is due to the thinness of the sheets and the slippery nature of the waxy surfaces thereof. Another objection is that the rollof sheets must be un-rolled and rerolledeach time one or more of the sheets is or are removed, this being very inconvenient. Moreover if the entire number of rolled sheets are removed from the central ,core and kept fiat for the sake of convenience of access, the removed sheets are left loose and without any'protection.

Another method of packaging cut sheets is in folded form in envelopes of paper or cardboard An objection to this method of packaging is that the envelope must be opened and the desired sheets fumbled for and withdrawn, frequently with the result that more than one sheet comes out when only one is wanted.

The object of the present invention is to furnish cut sheets of waxed wrapping paper, which sheets are not only assembled in an economical manner but are easily separable, individually, for use, without rumpling or otherwise disturbing the rest of the sheets even if the assembly includes one hundred or more of the sheets.

The above and other objects are accomplished by rolling any desired number of the sheets completely and successively one upon another and so confining the entire roll that the sheets may be drawn out singly paper is extensively used for.

from an end of the roll, each withdrawn sheet being the inner one, such withdrawal having no effect on the sheet next outside of the one so drawn out.

y invention consists in the package or collection of sheets and the method of producingthe same substantially as hereinafter described and claimed. 7

Ofthe accompanying drawings V Figure l is a side elevation, partly insection, of a core or mandrel suitable for use in'making the roll.

of Figural, on a larger scale.

Figure 3 is a side'elevation, partly in section, of a completed package.

Figure 2 represents a section, on line 2-2 Figure 4 represents a section on line 44 of Figure 3, on a larger scale than Figure 3.

In carrying out my invention I use a suitable core or mandrel 5, preferably collapsible, on which the desired number of sheets a are ,wound, each sheet wrapped around the mandrel before winding of the next sheet begins, the result being that the edgesof the sheets do not overlap but meet or are opposed to each other e ge to edge with more or less space between said edges as indicated at w in Figures '2 and 4. In said figures the sheets are indicated by single lines with spaces between the layers, in the interest of clearness of illustration. In practice, ofcou'rse, there are no spaces between the superimposed coils or layers, and usually many more sheetsare included than are illustrated in thedrawlngs.

chine which is employed for effecting the winding, said mandrel may be rotated by suitable gearing'meshing with a pinion 6 at one end of it. And said mandrel may be of When'the mandrel is a par-tof the mato illustrate the being completely out.

'a box, no dust can gain access thereto.

that when" the tube. It is customary, of course, to

enclose the tube and its contained sheets in a paper wrapper for storage,.transportation, and sale. 7

Owing to the fact that no edge portion of any sheet is in between two layers or coils of another sheet, that is, no sheet'is interwound with another sheet, the innermost one and each succeeding innermost one, is easily removable through one end of the tube without starting another sheet Auser can simply insert a finger, and by a slight pressure against the innersurface of the inner coil and an accompanying outward pulling action, start the inner sheet out far enough to be able to grasp it between two fingers. and pull that sheet com-- 'pletely out.

This action tends to convert the inner sheet temporarily into a form resembling a spirally coiled strip such as often used for a lamp lighter, reducing the diameter of the coils of the inner sheet slightly so that it easily leaves the next surrounding sheet and can be slid out. Afterwards the next inner sheet can be similarly removed.

lVhile I have illustrated a tube as the confiner for the collection of sheets, I do not limit myself'thereto. For instance, the confiner might be an elongated box having an end to be opened when a sheet is to be withdrawn. not only of the tube but also the wrapping which would usually be necessary to protect the whole for storage, exhibition for sale.

A particular advantage possessed by-my improved packa e is that whether the roll of sheets be confined in a tube or box such as described,such tube or box can be placed on a shelf with theend through which the sheets are to be removed at the front of the shelf so that whenever a sheet is desired the removal can be effected by the fingers of only one hand.

An important advantage is that the sheets are always in sanitary condition for use. In practice the sheets are rolled and located in the container by machinery and are not touched by human hands; And then when the roll of sheets is confined in It is to be understood, of course, the roll is contained in atube, end caps or closures of any suitable type will be employed. I V

sheets of paper,

a plurality of sheets therein, each of said Such a box takes the place shipping and each of which is coiled completely and in others and having no dependently of the between portions of portion interposed other coiled sheets, coiled sheets.

3. A package of separately removable comprising a container and sheetscomprising a complete coil free from intercoiling with any other sheet, and the container having an 'end outlet for per 'mitting the removal of sheets theret'hrough.

In testimony whereof I have aflixed my signature.

7 LEON E. LA BOMBARD.

and a confiner for said 

